The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 185

Therefore it was decided to start upon their journey the next morning, and the Woodman sharpened his axe on a green grindstone and had all his joints properly oiled.

Who acts: Woodman, joints, uncle · What happens: decide, start, sharpen, have, oil, journey · To what, where: heart, axe, green grindstone

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman, joints, uncle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 decided	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 decided	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 decided	aux:pass
4	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 start	mark
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 decided	xcomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 journey	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 journey	nmod:poss
9	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 morning	amod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sharpened	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sharpened	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Woodman	det
16	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sharpened	nsubj
17	sharpened	sharpen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 decided	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 axe	nmod:poss
19	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sharpened	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 grindstone	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 grindstone	det
22	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grindstone	amod
23	grindstone	grindstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sharpened	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sharpened	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 joints	det:predet
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 joints	nmod:poss
28	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 oiled	nsubj
29	properly	properly	ADV	_	30 oiled	advmod
30	oiled	oil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 had	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	past · passive		heart			therefore property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic
2	start not said to happen	to-infinitive				morning	upon uncle's journey	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	sharpen	past	the Woodman	Woodman's axe	a green grindstone			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent axe=Patient
4	have	past	the Woodman not said here					tree rules
5	oil	past	Woodman's joints				properly property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
6	journey		uncle					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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